I’ll explain that ^ later.
Last week my benevolent employer was kind enough to send me to Atlanta, Georgia for Big Nerd Ranch’s Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp. All I can say is “awesome”. I wish I’d paid for it myself so I could say it was the best money I’ve ever spent. If you’re interested in learning Rails, go right now and sign up for the one they’ve got early next year in Germany. If you’re interested in programming on OS X, or for the iPhone, I’m betting those classes are even better (if such a thing is possible), as Cocoa programming is their speciality.
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So long, long ago, I was using the Rails plugin Cartographer on one of my legion unfinished projects (not the rails version at this point). Since then, google maps api has gone to the 2.0 version, dinosaurs became extinct, and alien beings from beyond the stars have enslaved the human race.
Now, I fired up the ol’ Rails today to get back into the swing of things, and of course the thing craps right out. Ok, so I’m gonna roll up the sleeves, dig into the code, and update this thing. Let’s see how it goes.
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Well, I guess we all know that Rails has fantastic JS helpers. The array of tools is geniunely staggering and useful. We’ve got RJS: so we can just write Ruby and get js.
Of course, like everyone I know, Rails Javascript has a big but. Let’s talk about your big but, Rails JS.
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So in a bit will be Matz’ keynote. I’m definitely looking forward to that. There was a QA session with him last nite but I can’t remember a damn thing about it.
John Long gave a talk yesterday about Radiant that re-invigorated my love for the CMS and made me realize just how far behind I’ve become. This deserves it’s own post, but quickly I’d started thinking about it as a blog engine, and it’s much more than that.
What else has stuck? Less than I’d like. Just now a good talk about Unicode, text, and the letter-number-letter problems (you know who you are). Luckily, I don’t have to rely on my non-memory for that, I’ve got the url to his slides and can get at least the gist there.
Ah, yes, Laurent Sansonetti on OS X and Ruby. This guy has the best job in the world: He’s Apple’s Ruby guy. Apparently the only one right now, but he hinted at that changing. Great demo on controlling iTunes through Ruby. Slightly less striking demo on writing Cocoa apps using Ruby. I’m sure the Cocoa stuff is actually more mind-blowing and important…but it didnt’ have the immediacy of the scripting. Plus, it would require an actual programmer to leverage (the real reason it didn’t get me hard).
So I’m here in Denver for Ruby Conf!
Some brilliant person has seeded the conference room with power cables. I wish we’d had that kind of forethought in Vancouver. Apparently, we can hook up 105 70-watt power warts before we kill the circuit. I can’t wait.
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